Lautrec's family owned several houses. Most of the time the boy spent in a castle Boeck, near Albi. Like many aristocratic offspring, he was fond of horses and dogs and a child to draw animals (as, indeed, endless caricatures of others).

Henri childhood was marred by illness. Marriage of close relatives, commonly accepted in an aristocratic environment, could not but affect the health of offspring.

Parents of the future artist had nothing against his passion in art, realizing that as an adult, their son will not be able to lead a life that is typical for most of the aristocrats.

Lautrec has opened his own workshop. This happened in January 1884. The workshop was located in Montmartre, where, in addition to Lautrec, inhabited by many other young artists (accommodation in Montmartre was pretty cheap). Area is considered bohemian.

In adulthood, growth Lautrec barely reached 150 centimeters, but because in those days people were on average about ten inches below our contemporaries, the artist was not considered a dwarf (with such growth, even if called to serve in the army). Its head was disproportionately large, and the impression that the body of a man put on a children's feet.

Lifestyles artist led a very scattered and this was the reason for his early death. For his 30 years he was a complete alcoholic and suffered from syphilis. Friends tried to help him. Several times they staged Lautrec trip to London, but on his return every time he was taken to the old. In early 1899 Henry's mother had hired him for two male nurses, and after the next attack of delirium tremens had insisted that her son went to a psychiatric hospital, located near Paris. There Lautrec was treated from February 27 to May 17, 1899.

After leaving the clinic, Lautrec had gone to the Atlantic coast. He continued to write, but the work was dull and slow. Soon, the artist began to drink again - yes, as if willing to quickly bring themselves into the grave. After spending the winter 1900-1901 years in Bordeaux, he was in April 1901 he returned to Paris, and perhaps sensing that this year will be the last in his life, he began to lead his affairs in order, completing a number of unfinished paintings and signed the papers which considered worthy of attention.

15 July Lautrec last left Paris. In August, on the Atlantic coast, he caught a stroke that paralyzed half of the body. Countess Adele lived in while in the castle not far from Bordeaux, and the artist asked her to pick it up to you.

There's Toulouse-Lautrec, and died on September 9, 1901, at age 36.